Here’s some Billy Connolly to take the edge off and ease you all into the weekend:
The rest of his World Tours can be found here.
by Adam L Silverman| 51 Comments
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Here’s some Billy Connolly to take the edge off and ease you all into the weekend:
The rest of his World Tours can be found here.
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Adam L Silverman
And now that we’ve gotten the wee scheduling conflict sorted out… We’re back!
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: ROFL! Both front page posts had the exact same time to the minute…don’t know about the smaller granularity…
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: When EFG asked I went and checked and no one was working on a new post or had one scheduled (Mayhew’s got one scheduled for another time). So I went and started pulling vids. I hit publish and TaMara’s done her thing. So I figure I’ll go pull mine and reschedule it till tomorrow night. Hit refresh and suddenly there’s no TaMara music thread.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
I like to just keep it fucking simple.
Mnemosyne
@Villago Delenda Est:
According to the Twitter feed to my right, TaMara managed to edge Adam out by a few seconds.
Pinacacci
Oh my lord he is so young in that first one
ETA first time I saw him was in Mrs. Brown. I have never seen him young! Thanks Adam.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: Really, we’re professionals. We know what we’re doing at all times!
TaMara (HFG)
@Adam L Silverman: Ha-ha – I didn’t realize you pulled yours, too. I just saw you posted and shifted mine back to draft. Y’all will just have to wait for another evening for my musical choices.
EBT
Bloodclaat is the one that has me scratching my head.
Adam L Silverman
@Pinacacci: I should’ve posted one of him dressed as a banana. My favorite bit – SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE FINAL HOBBIT MOVIE!!!!! WARNING! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!! – was when Dain rides up at the Battle of Five Armies on a battle boar and starts to talk and its Billy Connolly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN-Jn4buXgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMfwYmZ6mQ
Calouste
@efgoldman: That’s a pretty short list. Brits are far more creative than that.
Pinacacci
@Adam L Silverman: DAMN YOU I READ THE SPOILER ANYWAY
ETA life ruined
ETA that was great
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: You really are not good at spoiler warnings.
scav
@efgoldman: Just noticed ginger on the far left. Seriously. Hair color mentioned at all but not any ethnic slurs? And I agree with the not at all imaginative enough to cover the spectrum.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: The movie came out how many years ago?
amk
Heh massholes, you got an answer to this asshole ?
redshirt
Luke Cage is great!
Major Major Major Major
Did you folks see this? In Portlandia, they do some skits that make fun of an uber-lefty radical feminist bookstore, filmed in an actual uber-lefty radical feminist bookstore. The store’s workers recently had a change of heart about this arrangement and basically proceeded to act like the bookstore from the skits.
amk
Obama sells off the innernetz.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Are you making an aspirational statement or trying to bolster his self esteem?
Pinacacci
@Adam L Silverman: I would say it’s more like an easter egg?
Adam L Silverman
@Pinacacci: That’s the Narnia movies. No Christian holidays in Middle Earth.
Adam L Silverman
Alright, time for me to rack out. You all have a good one.
Villago Delenda Est
@amk: Four vile subhuman GOP AGs brought the suit, and it was total bullshit, of course. The judge tossed it out and said “Please proceed, Mr. President.”
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: A TV commentary, actually.
RaflW
It goes on to say his headlining gig at another trade group was cancelled soon thereafter, as well as other damning details.
These Trump campaign surrogate a-holes are hanging around each other, egging each other on, and not getting (much) pushback on the cable blabfests, so they have no idea how far they have veered into the ditch.
One suspects Rudy is past giving a shit. He’s gone all in, either Trump wins or they all go down. FSM (plus all of us working), make it the latter!
Major Major Major Major
@RaflW: Yikes.
hilts
@Adam L Silverman:
It would be nice to have a humor thread posted every Friday from now until Election Day to help lighten the stress created by the thought of Trump winning this race.
Villago Delenda Est
@RaflW: The only apology anyone should entertain from Rudy 911 is a Captain Needa apology
amk
@RaflW: and rude rudy was supposedly the designated
driverminder of the orangegutan this week.Lalophobia
My mother died Wednesday. She’d been having shortness of breath and had gone for a stress test just the day before she went to the emergency room, her heart stopped and she died. Dad is sort of legally her next of kin (not me or my sister) and he has always been a drama queen at his best. Now he’s actually seeming incoherent and I’m seriously doubting his sanity a little bit, especially after he tried to pressure me into getting her to a funeral home (even though there was an autopsy and organ donation to do) barely 48 hours after her death. And when my uncle told me about a cremation society (since me and my sister were leaning towards cremation) which would provide the same services but cheaper than what the funeral home would do by about 700 dollars and I told my dad not to have her sent to the home, he went into a nonsensical rant about everybody saying they’re there for you when some one dies but nobody helps (even though, as I told him, my uncle called me to check on me and gave me the information that was going to help) going on about having to sell his house and having to hire a lawyer while in the same breath telling me we were getting money from her insurance and the difference between the funeral home and cremation society’s prices would be minimal, and accused my sister and I of not having or wanting to plan when he was planning to throw my mother at the first funeral parlor that looked our way before she’d even gotten cold.
To top it off I have always felt unsafe around people I consider to be adults (do in large part to my father’s unpredictable moods over the course of my childhood) and have always felt a need to be ‘on’ around other people. Now more than anything I wish I could stop and just grieve but it’s hard to do that when I’m alone let alone with people.
Y’all would’ve liked my mom. Everybody did. I know that’s the kind of thing you say about someone after they die but she was selfless to her own detriment. All I wanted was to find a way to pay back all the kindness and love she gave me over the course of her life and now I won’t be able to.
I just needed to vent. This is the first person I was (so very) close to that I’ve lost and neither me nor my sister were employed and she’s finishing school and it happened so fucking suddenly and I keep….I keep making note of funny things I hear about or saw on the internet to tell her about when she comes home, like I always do. And then I remember she’s not ever going to come home again.
Villago Delenda Est
@Lalophobia: My condolences to you and your family. Losing a parent is not easy for anyone, but it is the way of things. Losing a sibling is much worse (on you, and especially on your parents). You can pay her back by keeping her in your memory and trying do do all the positive things she did, to everyone around you.
[[[[hugs]]]]
laura
@Lalophobia: I am so sorry for your loss. Please be gentle with yourself, your sister and especially your dad. Blessings of peace and grace.
Major Major Major Major
@Lalophobia: Ugh, that’s awful. Vent away as needed, of course..
lurker dean
my mom is the kind of person everyone likes, so i know what you mean and am saddened by your loss, lalophobia. i’m sure it’s a really stressful time, i hope things will calm down and plans will come together. my condolences.
JR in WV
@Lalophobia:
Oh, man, I’m so sorry for your loss. When anyone looses a Mom that they loved it is like a body blow.. My Mom died in 1997, and I still expect to talk with her tomorrow!
Don’t expect your dad to make much sense for a few days. If you can just keep him together and try to have good choices for decisions. My brother and I say down and made calls down the list of funeral homes in the yellow pages, asking how much just for a simple cremation, no ceremony, no viewing, no expensive box getting burnt.
We got prices up to $18,000 !! but we also got a calm and experienced guy who said they do a lot of cremations, it basically $750. That included pickup of your loved one and delivery of that person to the crematory, and a plastic box to hold the cremains.
You might want to sit down with a relative or friend and just call down the list, whether a list on your cocmputer or a phone book you dig up.
And don’t take offense at anyone acting goofy, people don’t know how to act after a death, especially one that was unexpected.
Hang in there!!
scav
@Lalophobia: Sorry for you and everyone — but really, don’t be afraid to push back a little harder about time you need for yourself. Most people probably want to help, but just don’t know how (and they’re probably a little lost and confused too), so telling a few you could be best helped by having of privacy and silent support might be enough — they can help by serving as buffers, so everyone happy. And, if your mother was as selfless as you say, I’d imagine she’d be utterly pleased by your doing your best to take care of the other people who need it right now, and that includes yourself.
NickM
Very strange story in the WaPo – wonder if anyone has any thoughts. Potentially a kind of forboding development.
“A new wrinkle in the case, however, has recently emerged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., where prosecutors have suggested that Navy officials from the intelligence unit also sought to funnel military equipment to rural Hudspeth County and set up a secret training base near the Mexican border.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-a-high-profile-texas-sheriff-is-tied-to-a-rogue-navy-unit-facing-a-criminal-probe/2016/09/30/35c7d120-8585-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_navy-755pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Ruckus
@Lalophobia:
Sorry for your loss. RIP Mom.
It’s difficult enough to lose a parent when it’s expected due to age or illness but a surprise throws a lot into that difficult mix. @scav: has it right, don’t forget to take care of yourself along with everyone else.
We cremated both mom and dad, separately, as they went 12 yrs apart, buried dad with his parents and mom wanted her ashes to be scattered at sea. If money is a real concern, and it was for us at the time, both of these were relatively inexpensive.
Steeplejack
@Lalophobia:
My condolences. Wishing peace to you and your family.
Steeplejack
@NickM:
WTF?
ThresherK (GPad)
@Lalophobia: Heartfelt condolences crook our home. The people here are warm and caring about the important things in life.
ThresherK (GPad)
@efgoldman: I can only think of. Mony Python skit where Michael Palin, as ThE announcer, describes why they had to cut away from a previous sketch due to content. He sets up a Chiron list of words ( with asterisks) which will get that treatment, including
KN*CKERS
&
KN*CKERS
opiejeanne
@Lalophobia: I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost my mom in 2003 and my sister and our dad went kind of limp and let me figure out what to do. I still miss her but it does get better. For a long time I’d go to call her to ask about something or share a joke I heard, and then I’d remember. I lost Dad 4 years ago and it’s the same way, miss him, wish I could call him up to ask him one more question about some half-remembered family story.
It does get better.
satby
@Lalophobia: Deepest condolences on the loss of your mom, Lalophobia. I’m glad you have an uncle who can help support you and your sister since your father’s grief has him being difficult. Let your uncle help and support you as much as you can, other family too. Your mom sounds like she was a wonderful person.
I lost my mom last April, and I still think of things I want to call and tell her about. But it moved from a sad feeling to a poignant one and keeps her memory fresh for me. Some day it will for you too. Hugs.
opiejeanne
@NickM: That is really strange.
rikyrah
@Lalophobia: I am so sorry for your loss. I have been where you are and there are no words. You just have to work through the pain. ??
Joel
@EBT: Jamaican patois, “blood cloth”. Related directly to bumboclaat, which is what you wipe your ass with. You can figure out the rest.
Adam L Silverman
@Lalophobia: My sincerest condolences. Remember to give yourself permission to be angry or sad or both.
RaflW
@NickM: Just reading the Stars and Stripes repost of the WaPo article. “a rogue Navy intelligence office at the Pentagon that has been under criminal investigation for the past three years”
Jeeeee-zus.
ChrisGrrr
@Lalophobia: A huge part of her is home – in you and your sister’s values.
My mom passed in ’09, before my mentally ill dad did. I sure hope the pain and weirdness from, uh, outside of your head go away soon! Been there…
Each year I appreciate more and more how much selflessness my folks built into us, by modeling / doing.